The new international media for a changing world – The new international media for a changing world
SERGIO NAVAS
Today, the world is burning more oil than ever before. Although the green agenda and renewable energies are advancing, the reality is that the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have delayed the energy transition. The peak of fossil fuel consumption is now expected for 2032. In addition to Covid and Ukraine, the trade war against China has further contributed to the 'deglobalizing' scenario, pushing for a geopolitical realignment.
CECILIA VALDEZ
Green colonialism or green capitalism is what critical environmentalism calls the exploitation of natural resources from the global North over the global South, and which will make it possible to guarantee the energy transition that industrialized countries boast so much about, that is, those that more pollute. But the energy transition requires natural resources that the north does not have, such as lithium or green hydrogen.
While the socio-environmentalist denounces the serious consequences of plundering practices, governments and corporations close agreements. Even countries that show irreconcilable differences in world geopolitics shake hands in their territories and seal commitments. On the side of Latin American progressives, the more or less critical position regarding extractivism depends on whether they are a government or not, and on the pressing economic needs that make them dependent on foreign currency.
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XULIO RIOS
If the summit that the BRICS have held in Johannesburg has revealed anything, it is the firm will to reactivate their association with two main parameters of action. First, development issues will continue to be high on its agenda; secondly, issues related to peace and security will gain relevance in their positions.
The common denominator is the implementation of a roadmap in which both issues are inextricably linked.
After enlargement, the BRICS will represent 37% of world GDP and 46% of the planet's population.
PASCUAL SERRANO
Last June, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, stated that, according to the intelligence information available to them, China was strengthening its infrastructure for data collection in foreign countries, and added more specifically that "the People's Republic China had carried out an upgrade of its intelligence gathering facilities in Cuba in 2019."
The news was reported by The Wall Street Journal, adding that while Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting with President Xi Jinping, China was negotiating to establish a military training center in Cuba, which would put thousands of soldiers 90 miles away. off the coast of Florida.
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PASCUAL SERRANO
One of the characteristics of socialist governments has been the obscurantism of information. For this reason, one of the challenges that Cuban legislators faced was to break that tradition, that way of operating. The law had to make it clear that citizens had the right to information, and that journalists should not find obstacles in the institutions to access it.
JUAN MIGUEL MUNOZ
São Paulo
The Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Brazil adopted a decision on the last day of June that will bring a tail. In a vote of its seven members, five of them decided the political disqualification of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who will not be able to stand in any election until 2030.
The magistrates described the action of the extreme right leader in a meeting he held on July 18 with dozens of accredited diplomats in Brasilia as an abuse of power – also due to the use of public resources and public television.
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EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The crisis of liberal democracy is rampant everywhere. In essence, it does not respond solely to a lack of leadership, but also to convictions that are increasingly deeply rooted in individuals from different layers of Western society. To this must be added the clearly reactionary values on the rise, including identity values that are at war with the rationalism that originated with the Enlightenment.
The result is a more fragile society, barely able to cope with the challenges of the times, with many people who see liberal values as unbearable oppression and seek direct confrontation with the enemy without realizing that this attitude carries risks. .
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XULIO RIOS
The visit of the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, to China has the main merit of having recovered a certain normality in the bilateral dialogue, showing that there is a relative potential for easing tensions.
It also seems to have paved the way and cleared up some unknowns regarding the bilateral performance in some upcoming summits such as the G20 in India (in September) or the APEC (in November) in the US, which stand out on the agenda of the second semester of the year
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CECILIA VALDEZ
The memory of December 2001 in Argentina refers, almost automatically, to the corralito. However, at the same time that the banks were leaking massive sums of money; the former president, Fernando de la Rúa, was leaving the government house by helicopter in the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis; and there was atrocious repression against a people that had taken to the streets to demonstrate; some of the most important experiences of popular organization that can be accounted for in Argentine history were also cooked up.
Neighborhood assemblies, barter, unemployed movements, cartoneros, or companies recovered by their workers, began to form part of the daily landscape and managed to insert dynamics of massive and unprecedented grassroots organization until then.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
If you look at the Western media with a critical eye, you end up noticing how their reporting consistently aligns with the interests of the US centralized empire, much as you would expect if they were government-run propaganda outlets. That this extreme bias occurs is obvious and indisputable to anyone paying attention, but why and how it occurs is harder to see.
SERGIO NAVAS
The dollar has lost its purpose as a "trusted world currency" and emerging powers are eager to build a less dangerous alternative. It is not a question of replacing the United States with China as the dominant force, but of establishing multiple poles, each enjoying its important sphere of influence.
CESAR ROBLES ASCURRA
Lima
The situation in the country becomes tense and resumes the path of confrontation and polarization before the call of various unions, social movements and left-wing political leaders to the so-called "Toma de Lima", a march that hopes to gather in the capital on next July 19 thousands of protesters to demand the resignation of Dina Boluarte and demand a way out of the serious political crisis that the country is going through and that is increasing day by day. It will be an attempt to channel the widespread indignation that exists in the country and that, according to estimates by different polling companies, borders on 85% rejection of the Government and close to 90% rejection of the Congress of the Republic.
